CAMBRIDGE, MA — Basho Technologies, the leader in distributed database technologies, announced today that Basho's Chief Executive Officer, Don Rippert, is participating in a panel discussion on "Big Data and the Cloud" to support the FinTech Technology Lab. The event will bring at the same time entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives from the financial services innovation sectors that support the program.

The leader in highly-available

Basho Technologies is the leader in highly-available, distributed database technologies used to power scalable, data-intensive Web, mobile, and e-commerce applications and large cloud computing platforms. Basho clients, including fast-growing Web businesses and large Fortune 500 enterprises, use Riak to implement content delivery platforms and global session stores, to aggregate large amounts of data for logging, search, and analytics, to manage, store and stream unstructured data, and to build scalable cloud computing platforms.

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